README.md

brat rapid annotation tool (brat)

Documentation

In an attempt to keep all user-facing documentation in one place, please visit
the brat homepage which contains extensive documentation and examples
of how to use and configure brat. We apologise for only providing minimal
documentation along with the installation package but the risk of having
out-dated documentation delivered to our end-users is unacceptable.

If you find bugs in your brat installation or errors in the documentation,
please file an issue at our issue tracker and we will strive to
address it promptly.

About brat

brat (brat rapid annotation tool) is based on the stav visualiser
which was originally made in order to visualise
BioNLP'11 Shared Task data. brat aims to provide an
intuitive and fast way to create text-bound and relational annotations.
Recently, brat has been widely adopted in the community. It has been used to
create well-over 50,000 annotations by the Genia group and several
other international research groups for a number of annotation projects.

Contributing

As with any software brat is under continuous development. If you have
requests for features please file an issue describing your
request. Also, if you want to see work towards a specific feature feel free to
contribute by working towards it. The standard procedure is to fork the
repository, add a feature, fix a bug, then file a pull request that your
changes are to be merged into the main repository and included in the next
release. If you seek guidance or pointers please notify the brat developers
and we will be more than happy to help.

If you send a pull request you agree that the code will be distributed under
the same license as brat (MIT). Additionally, all non-anonymous contributors
are recognised in the CONTRIBUTORS.md file.

Contact

For help and feedback please contact the authors below, preferably with all on
them on CC since their responsibilities and availability may vary: